Job Description

Position Title: Corrugator Supervisor

Reports To: Corrugator Superintendent

The Corrugator Supervisor is responsible for overseeing a team of approximately ten employees, ensuring the safe and efficient production of high-quality board with minimal waste. This role includes cross-training employees in critical positions and maintaining an environment focused on safety and productivity.

Key Responsibilities

• Quality & Production: Ensure production meets or exceeds quality, efficiency, and waste targets set by management, and communicate these standards to the team.
• Quality Issues: Report quality concerns to the Corrugator and Plant Superintendent, and contribute to defining quality guidelines.
• Team Morale & Support: Foster high morale by demonstrating fairness, consistency, and empathy towards employees. Maintain confidentiality in all matters.
• Inventory Management: Oversee inventories of roll stock and corrugator supplies.
• Coordination with Maintenance: Work closely with the supervisor and Maintenance team for any necessary repairs or preventive maintenance within the department.
• Problem Resolution: Inform upper management of any issues affecting the department's performance and apply corrective action when necessary.
• Meetings: Hold weekly Production/Safety meetings with departmental personnel to address key concerns and safety standards.
• Shift Coordination: Ensure smooth handovers between shifts by communicating effectively with shift supervisors.
• Professional Development: Enhance career skills through technical courses, seminars, and college-level courses.
• Policy & Compliance: Uphold all company policies, safety programs, and good housekeeping practices.
• Additional Responsibilities: Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Directly supervise all employees in the department, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and applicable laws.
• Handle key supervisory tasks such as training, performance evaluations, discipline, conflict resolution, team-building, coaching, and setting an example of exemplary behavior.

Education and Experience

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Minimum of two years of prior supervisory experience.
• Preferred: Experience in the corrugated industry.

Skills and Qualifications

• Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, maintenance manuals, and procedures. Capable of writing routine reports and speaking effectively with groups of employees or customers.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to use a tape measure accurately and calculate percentages, measurements, volume, and rate. Apply basic high school-level math concepts.
• Reasoning Skills: Ability to apply logical thinking to follow instructions in written, oral, or graphic form and address problems with multiple variables.
• Technical Skills: Working knowledge of equipment design and operational capabilities, cost control, quality standards, and regulatory requirements (e.g., OSHA, DEQ, EEO).

Certifications & Licenses

• May require maintaining a current Lift Truck Operator License.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands, and reach with arms. Must occasionally sit, stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, with occasional lifting up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and focus adjustments.

Work Environment

• Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts, wet or humid conditions, and occasional high or precarious places.
• Periodic exposure to fumes, airborne particles, and vibration.
• Noise level is typically loud.

Leadership Attributes

The ideal candidate will exhibit the following qualities:

• Time Management: Ability to manage multiple issues concurrently and lead efficient meetings.
• Teaching & Training Skills: Effective at teaching technical and administrative tasks to staff.
• Crisis Management: Ability to remain calm and composed under pressure, leading the team through challenges.
• Employee Relations: Skilled in active listening, feedback, conflict resolution, and employee motivation.
• Leadership Confidence: Demonstrates professional assertiveness while maintaining a consistent leadership style.

Performance Metrics

• Operating Standards: Achieve or surpass quality, cost, safety, customer satisfaction, and productivity targets.
• Personal Growth: Work toward continuous professional development with goals established in collaboration with a superior.
• Employee Relations: Evaluate leadership effectiveness based on motivation techniques, feedback, team development, and work environment improvement.
• Creativity: Contribute innovative ideas for business advancement.

Qualifications

Pratt Industries has shown dramatic growth in just two decades to become the 4th largest corrugated packaging company in the USA and the world’s largest, privately-held producer of 100% recycled containerboard.